In May the Reserve Bank appeared to promise the world a further rate rise down under.
Hearing them talk of tax cuts in a country whose tax take is among the lowest in the Western world likewise has not gone down well under the dour skies of north Europe.
The Chernobyl plant remained in service until December 2000, when it was finally shut down under pressure form the world's richest nations.
The youngest-ever player to win a grand slam when she took the Australian Open title at 16 years and three months, she made it a hat-trick of wins Down Under as she topped the world rankings until 2000.
The New Zealand international, 32, had been mulling over a return down under in time for the 2011 World Cup - and also for family reasons.
The world has watched admirably at the "wonder from down under, " a seemingly recession-proof economy that avoided a downturn after the global financial crisis and that has not experienced two successive quarters of negative growth for20 years.
While this lab maybe deep in an underground lair, they keep it real down there with goal of testing under real world environments.
But we all know that didn't happen and I believe this was down to Australia's world class bowlers who put us under a lot of pressure.
But Davies fears if Wales are still struggling to score tries by the time the World Cup in New Zealand kicks off next October, their time Down Under will be short-lived.
Neil said he has suffered from a tyranny of distance from living "down under" and trying to communicate with the rest of the world.
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His partner also enjoyed the lifestyle in Australia and will combine watching Morley playing for England at the forthcoming World Cup with catching up with the friends the couple made during their years down under.
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And, although tourism has turned Zermatt from a poor and isolated Alpine village into one of the world's wealthiest resorts in under a century, even tourism officials think it is time the town slowed down.
Though the world won't quite meet the goal, we've still made great progress: The number of children under 5 years old who die world-wide fell to 6.9 million in 2011, down from 12 million in 1990 (despite a growing global population).
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